Color scales represent all sorts of things like temperature, speed, age, and even population. If you want to apply this auto-coloring to Excel cells with the available condition, use the Color Scale feature according to the instructions below.

With conditional formatting, you can apply a gradient color scale in just a few minutes. Excel provides a two- and three-color color scale that you can choose from, along with other options for customizing your color scale.

Automatically color Excel cells with conditional formatting

Microsoft Excel provides you with several color scale templates to automatically colorize Excel cells for quick application. These include six two-color scales and six three-color scales.

Select the cells that you want to apply. Then go to section Styles of the Home tab.

Click on “Conditional Formatting” and select “Color Scales.“. You will see all 12 color scale options available.

As you hover over each one, you’ll see the cells you selected change as well. Thanks to that, you can easily choose the most suitable color scale for your Excel table.

Customize conditional formatting color scale

If you don’t like Excel’s built-in color scale templates, you can still easily create your own color scale.

Select the cells you want, go to the Home tab and select “New Rule” under “Conditional Formatting”.

When the new New Formatting Rule window opens, select “Format All Cells Based on Their Values” at top.

Part Edit the Rule Description At the bottom of the window is where you’ll spend time customizing the color scale rule. Start by choosing 2-Color Scale or 3-Color Scale (2 or 3 color scale).

The main difference between the two is that the tricolor scale has a midpoint, while the two color scale has only minimum and maximum values.

After choosing the color scale style, select Minimum, Maximum and Midpoint under Types. You can also choose from Lowest/Highest Value, Number, Percent, Formula, or Percentile.

The Lowest Value and Highest Value types are based on the data in the selected cell range, so you don’t need to enter anything. Excel will automatically color the cells according to the condition.

Finally, click Color to choose the color you want. If you want to customize the colors, select “More Colors” to use RGB or Hex color codes.

You will then see a preview of your color scale at the bottom of the window. If you are satisfied with the results, press “OK” to apply the formatting.

If you edit your data, the color scale will automatically update to accommodate the change.

So you have successfully applied the color scale in Microsoft Excel. In addition, you can also learn Excel quickly with these 8 tips.

Back to the basic Excel Series for beginners, today, I will introduce the Skip Blanks feature to make it more convenient for everyone to copy and paste in Excel.

Skip blanks for what?

Imagine you have 2 columns (1 column has only 1 cell with values ​​and 1 column has values). You want to replace the valuable positions from the column where only a few cells have been filled to the remaining column. Then Skip Blanks will come to work and help you. It will automatically ignore cells that are empty and only “Paste” cells that have a value.

Skip Blank User Manual

Step 1: select Range from B1:B12

Step 2: Right-click and select Copy

Step 3: Select cell A1

Step 4: Right-click and select Paste Special

Step 5: Select Skip Blank

Step 6: Click OK

So I just finished the Skip Blank feature tutorial. Leave a comment to let me know where you guys are

Hello friends! Welcome back to the Basic Excel Series for beginners. And today, I will introduce to you a feature that helps us to have an easier view of Excel: AutoFit.

Benefits of AutoFit

Surely you know how to adjust the width of a column or a row, right? But have you ever found it difficult to adjust them? If yes, then AutoFit will be the one to help you do that. AutoFit’s job is to automatically adjust the height and width of columns and rows to fit the best value

Usual way of adjustment

Step 1: Hover over the right margin of that column

Step 2: Move the mouse to the sides to change the width of the column

Using AutoFit

Step 1: Hover over the right margin of that column

Step 2: Click twice and AutoFit will adjust to the best fit

AutoFit for multiple columns or rows

Step 1: Select the columns to edit (Use CTRL to select 2 columns that are not next to each other)

Step 2: Double click in the right margin

Edit All Columns or Rows

Step 1: Select all columns

Step 2: Change the width of that column

AutoFit both columns and rows 1 fastest way

Step 1: Select columns and rows to change

Step 2: Go to Home -> Format

Step 3: Click AutoFit

Result

Note: default column width is 8.43 = 64 px and row height is 15 = 114 px

I just showed you how to use AutoFit. If you have any questions, please leave a comment to let me know.

Hello friends! Welcome back to the basic Excel tutorial for beginners. With today’s post, I would like to introduce another feature of Excel: Split Cell

Split Cell – Split cells for what?

True to its name. Split Cell is how we split cells together. For example, if you have 4 columns in Excel and you want to add another column in between those 4 columns, usually, people will move 2 columns to leave a space in the middle, but with Split cell it is possible help us do that.

Instructions for using Split Cell – Split Cells

Step 1: Select column

Step 2: Right-click and select Insert

Result

Guide to Merge cells – Merge cells

As its name implies, Merge Cell is used to Merge 2 cells together. This is very useful in making a simple schedule or diagram. Let’s practice together!

Step 1: Select 2 cells B1 and C1

Step 2: In the Home section, Click the down arrow next to Merge and Center and select Merge Cells

Result

Text to Column Tutorial

Text to column will help you to separate words and divide it into different columns. For example: If you want to separate First and Last Name into separate columns, Text to column will help you.

Step 1: Choose a space with first and last name

Step 2: On the toolbar, Select Data -> Text to Column

Step 3: A dialog box will appear. Select Delimited and Click Next

Step 4: In Delimited, Tick Comma and Space (2 these will remove commas and spaces between words)

Step 5: Select Finish

Result

Flash Fill

Flash fill will help people to extract data faster from given data

Making:

Step 1: Get data from 1 cell and split into many adjacent cells

Step 2: Select cell B1 and press CTRL + E (Shortcut of Flash Fill)

Step 3: Select cell C1 and press CTRL + E

Step 4: Select cell D1 and press CTRL + E

Split Cell using the formula

Below formula to return Name

The formula below to return the Last Name

Result

So I just finished the tutorial About Split Cell In Excel. If you have any questions, please leave a comment to let me know

Quickly format a cell by selecting cell style in Excel. You can also create cell styles(cell style) of its own.

How to use Cell Style in Excel

first. For example, select cell B2 below.

2. On the Home tab, in the Styles group, you can select the cell style you want.

Result:

To create your own cell style, perform the following steps.

3. On the Home tab, in the Styles group, click the down arrow on the right.

Here you can find more cell styles.

4. Select New Cell Style.

5. Enter a name and click the Format button to choose Number Format, Alignment, Font, Border, Fill and Protection.

6. Click OK.

7. On the Home tab, in the Styles group, apply your own cell style.

Result.

Note: Right-click a cell style to edit or delete it. Editing a cell style affects all cells in the workbook that use that cell style. This can save a lot of time.

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You can use the Merge Cells increment to merge cells into another larger cell in Excel. But this feature keeps only the value of the upper left cell and deletes all other values. Use the Excel CONCATENATE function to concatenate strings.

How to merge cells in Excel

first. Enter the following text in cell A1.

2. Select the area A1:G1.

3. On the Home tab, in the Alignment group, click Merge & Center.

Result:

Remember, Excel keeps only the value in the upper left cell and deletes all other values.

first. For example, enter the following value in cells A1, B1 and C1 and select these cells.

2. On the tab Homein group Alignmentpress Merge & Center.

Result:

Note: on tab Homein group Alignmentpress Merge & Center again to unmerge the cells (cells B1 and C1 will be empty). Press Ctrl + z to undo.

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In this article, I will show you how to mark different cells in a row Excel.

How to highlight different cells in 1 row Excel

1. Select the area A1:C15.

Because I start dragging from cell A1, cell A1 will be the comparison cell, press ENTER and TAB to change the comparison cell.

2. On the Home tab, in the Editing group, click Find & Select.

3. Click Go To Special.

4. Select Row differences and click OK.

For row 2, Excel selects cell B2 because 523 is different from 522 (compare cell). For row 4, Excel selects cell B4 and cell C4 because 725 is different from cell A4 (723),…

5. On the Home tab, in the Font group, change the background color of the selected cells.

Result:

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By default, Excel Copy both visible and hidden cells. However, I will show you how to copy visible cells.

How to copy visible cells in Excel

In this example, row 2 is hidden.

When you copy this area, this will be the result:

Excel also copies the pressed cell so there will be 4 values ​​when you paste. You can take the following steps to have Excel copy only visible cells.

first. Select the area A1:A4.

2. On the tab Homein group Editingpress Find & Select.

3. Press Go To Special.

4. Click Visible cells only and click OK.

Excel will select the visible cells.

5. Press Ctrl + to copy the area.

6. Select cell A6 and press Ctrl + DRAW to paste the copied area.

Result:

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In this article, I will show you how to count empty and non-blank cells in Excel.

How to count blank and non-blank cells in Excel

1. The COUNTBLANK function below will count the number of empty cells in the range A1:A7.

2. The COUNTA function helps us to count the number of non-blank cells in the range A1:A7.

3. The COUNTIFS function will count the number of empty cells in the range B1: B7 with the word blue.

Explanation: the COUNTIFS function (with an S at the end) in Excel counts cells based on two or more texts. Use a string of empty cells (two quotes with nothing in between) to find empty cells.

4. The COUNTIFS function will count the number of non-blank cells in the range B1:B7 with an additional text (pink).

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